The International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition, for tradition and amount of prize, is one of the oldest and most prestigious piano competitions in the world,^[1] taking place in Seregno, Italy since 1959 and held every 2 years.

The Story

The contest was founded by Gina Gambini, widow of the Italian pianist, Maestro Ettore Pozzoli, wishing to honour the memory of her husband by giving musicians from all over the world an opportunity to show their artistic skills. Up to now, more than 1.500 pianists coming from all over the world have participated in the 25 editions of the competition that has taken place in the city in northern Italy. In 1959, the first pianist to win the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition was Maestro Maurizio Pollini, now considered one of the major musicians in the world. The last edition (XXVI°) took place in September 2009, celebrating the 50th year of the Competition foundation and was won by the young American pianist, Maestro Christopher Falzone.

Prize winners

1959	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Maurizio Pollini	Gino Brandi
		Wally Rizzardo
1961	1st prize (ex-a.)	2nd prize
	Pier Narciso Masi	France Redon
	Fabio Peressoni
1963	1st prize	2nd Prize
	Laura De Fusco	Alberto Colombo
1965	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	François-Joël Thiollier	Yoshiya Iwamoto
		Riccardo Risaliti
1967	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	not awarded	Speidel Sontraud
		Ewa Wolak
1969	1st prize	2nd prize
	Franco Angeleri	Antonio Bacchelli
	Anna Maria Cigola
1971	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Pierre Réach	Vincenzo Balzani
		Tajka Hiroshi
1973	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Raimondo Campisi	Noemi Gobbi
		Michael Krist
1975	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Daniel Rivera	Boris Bloch
		Roberto Cappello
1977	1st prize	2nd prize
	Pietro Rigacci	Elisabeth Rigollet
1979	1st prize	2nd prize
	Rolf Plagge	Giovanni Umberto Battel
1981	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Hüseyin Sermet	Barry Douglas
		Megumi Umene
1983	1st prize	2nd prize
	Hugh Tinney	Boris Slutsky
1985	1st prize	2nd prize
	Klárá Würtz	Mariana Gurkova
1987	1st prize	2nd prize
	Seizo Azuma	not awarded
1989	1st prize	2nd prize
	William Stephenson	Andrew Wilde
1991	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Anna Emilova Stoytcheva
1993	1st prize	2nd prize
	Maria Stembolskaya	Sergei Yerokhin
1995	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Dmitri Krivonos
1997	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Paolo Wolfango Cremonte
1999	1st prize	2nd prize
	Filippo Gamba	Lorenzo Di Bella
2001	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Denys Proshayev
2003	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Fumio Kawamura
2005	1st prize	2nd prize
	Martin Cousin	Yoonjung Han
2007	1st prize	2nd prize
	Alexandre Pirojenko	Victor Stanislavsky
2009	1st prize	2nd prize
	Christopher Falzone	Domenico Monaco
2011	1st prize	2nd prize
	Alexey Chernov	Alexander Yakovlev
2015	1st prize(ex-a.)	2nd prize
	Anastasia Rizikov	not awarded
	Yoshito Numasawa
2017	1st prize	2nd prize
	not awarded	Axel Trolese
		Elizaveta Kliuchereva
2019	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)
	Evgeny Konnov	Andrei Leshkin
		Elia Cecino